{"id":403454,"date":"2026-09-22T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=403454"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:34:19","slug":"latter-day-saints-happy-in-their-family-lives-traditional-in-gender-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2026\/09\/22\/latter-day-saints-happy-in-their-family-lives-traditional-in-gender-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Latter-day Saints: Happy in their family lives, traditional in gender roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This project looks at the religious beliefs and practices, as well as the social and political views, of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons) in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center has long studied the religiousness and political attitudes of Americans in different religious traditions. This project builds on our major 2011 survey of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a> and our other research on religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This project is based mainly on data from the Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), a survey of 36,908 randomly sampled U.S. adults conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024. It included interviews with 565 people who currently identify as Latter-day Saints (414 lifelong church members and 151 converts), as well as 316 former Latter-day Saints. The RLS was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Templeton Religion Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are more details about the landscape study\u2019s methodology<\/a> and information on the sample sizes and margins of error<\/a> for subgroups of Latter-day Saints analyzed in this project.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Many teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints center around the family. For example, family relationships are believed to continue beyond death<\/a>: Marriages performed in temples can be eternal, and the children of couples married in temples can be sealed to (or united with) them for eternity. For many years, the church also has encouraged members to hold weekly family nights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the church\u2019s emphasis on marriage and children, how do its members feel about their families?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Pew Research Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), they\u2019re largely satisfied with their family bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared with other religious groups, Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons) are among the most likely to rate their family lives as excellent or very good. About seven-in-ten Latter-day Saints rate their family lives this positively \u2013 similar to the shares among Hindus and Jews, and higher than the shares of other Christians and religiously unaffiliated adults who describe their family lives as very good or excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Religious Landscape Study of U.S. adults conducted July 17, 2023-March 4, 2024.
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